Patents Examined by Tony Davis
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Patent number: 9811315Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting location related information after a user arrives at a place. In an aspect, when a user gazes at a display of a standby device, information presentation begins. In other aspects, when a user shakes a device or says certain words to a device, and then gazes at it, a presentation starts.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Inventor: Chian Chiu Li
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Patent number: 9804673Abstract: A method of making a touch-sensitive data entry screen of the kind arranged to provide haptic response to a user via at least one electromechanical exciter coupled to the screen, comprising analyzing the mechanical and electromechanical coupled system represented by the data entry screen and the at least one exciter, and selecting values of parameters of the coupled system to provide a required displacement and acceleration of the screen at low frequency in response to human touch.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2010Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: NVF TECH LTD.Inventors: Martin Colloms, Timothy Christopher Johnson Whitwell
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Patent number: 9804670Abstract: A display apparatus includes an infrared outputter configured to output infrared light toward a user, an image capturer configured to photograph the user to generate a captured image, and a controller configured to detect, from the captured image, a pupil and an iris of the user, and a glint area generated by the infrared light, and to determine, in response to the pupil, the iris, and the glint area being detected, a direction of the user's gaze based on a relation between a location of the pupil, and the glint area, and a size of the iris.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Chang-han Kim, In-Ho Choi, Tae-hwa Hong, Hong-il Kim, Joo-young Son
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Patent number: 9807213Abstract: An electronic device (100) includes a housing (101), one or more processors (116), and a display (102). The display, housing, and other components are flexible, stretchable, squeezable, or otherwise deformable in one or more embodiments. One or more flex sensors (156) are operable with the one or more processors, as is a gravity sensor such as an accelerometer (152). The one or more processors can detect (303) a bending operation (301) with the one or more flex sensors that deforms one or more of the housing or the display into a deformed geometry (402). The one or more sensors can then determine a gravity direction (503) with the gravity sensor, after the bending operation and operate (602) the electronic device in a predefined mode of operation (705) as a function of both the deformed geometry and the gravity direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLCInventor: Elliot M. Stewart
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Patent number: 9791947Abstract: Disclosed is an operation display device, including: a display unit; a touch panel to simultaneously detect touch operations carried out with fingers to a display surface of the display unit; a finger shape detecting unit to detect a shape of a contact part of the finger, which contacts to the display surface in each of the touch operations; and a control unit to control display contents of the display unit, wherein when the touch operations are simultaneously detected by the touch panel, the control unit judges whether the touch operations are an operation carried out by one operator or are operations carried out by a plurality of operators in accordance with the shape of the contact part of the finger relating to each touch operation, and changes the display contents of the display unit in accordance with a result of judging the touch operations.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA INC.Inventor: Yasuaki Sugimoto
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Patent number: 9792300Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting location related information after a user arrives at a place. In an aspect, when a user gazes at a display of a standby device, information presentation begins. In another aspect, when a user shakes a standby device and then gazes at it, a presentation starts. Location related info may be sorted and presented by the pointing direction of a device.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Inventor: Chian Chiu Li
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Patent number: 9791969Abstract: A touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of wirings. Each of the plurality of first electrodes has a first portion formed on a layer different from that on which the second electrodes are formed and intersecting the second electrodes, and a second portion formed on the same layer as that on which the second electrodes are formed, but separated from the second electrode. The second electrode and the second portion of the first electrode are formed on a layer different than the layer where the wiring is formed. The first portion of the first electrode is connected to the second portion through a contact portion formed in an insulating film made of a negative resist between the first portion and the second electrode.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2017Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignees: Japan Display Inc., Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Teramoto
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Patent number: 9787995Abstract: A source driver, a driving circuit using the same and a display apparatus using the same are provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller and a source driver. The timing controller is configured to receive an external image signal to provide a compressed image signal. The source driver is configured to receive the compressed image signal, and has a decompressor configured to convert the compressed image signal into restored image data and provide a plurality of source driving signals to drive the display panel according to a plurality of display data of the restored image data.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.Inventors: Chu-Ya Hsiao, Han-Ying Chang
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Patent number: 9782060Abstract: A medical system includes: a plurality of monitors each configured to display a video signal of a different type; a touch panel configured to display an operation screen where a selecting operation is performed; a video output discrimination portion configured to discriminate a monitor capable of displaying the video signal of the peripheral device for which the selecting operation is performed by referring to a table in which the peripheral device is associated with the monitor capable of displaying the video signal; a data holding portion configured to hold a monitor identification video for identifying the monitor capable of displaying the video signal and information on the corresponding monitor; and a peripheral device control portion configured to perform control so as to display the monitor identification video held in the data holding portion on the discriminated monitor, depending on a discrimination result of the video output discrimination portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventors: Iori Nemoto, Kiyoshi Sekiguchi, Yorito Maeda, Takayuki Katsuyama
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Patent number: 9772713Abstract: A display device is connectable to a plurality of electronic pens and has a screen on which information is displayed in accordance with inputs from a plurality of electronic pens and a touch input. The display device includes a touch detection sensor, a wireless communication section, a display controller, and a touch panel controller. The touch detection sensor detects a touch on the screen. The wireless communication section receives signals from the plurality of electronic pens connected. The display controller determines a distance between at least two electronic pens out of the plurality of electronic pens connected, from the signals received via the wireless communication section. The touch panel controller enables or disables a function of the touch detection sensor based on the above determination.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2016Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Ken Mori, Takuya Nishimura, Yasuo Masuda
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Patent number: 9772711Abstract: A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a first gesture on a touch screen, dividing a display region of the touch screen into two or more regions according to the first gesture, detecting a second gesture originating in one of the two or more divided regions, and displaying the second gesture according to a region attribute of the one region and the second gesture.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jeong-Min Park, Kyung-Tae Kim, Seung-Eun Lee, Eun-Jung Hyun
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Patent number: 9766758Abstract: An operation device includes a detecting portion that detects an operation performed on an operation surface and outputs a detection value, and a computing portion that includes a first threshold for determining whether or not an operation is performed on the operation surface and a second threshold more than the first threshold, and operates such that a detection point calculated based on a second detection value acquired from the detecting portion is replaced by a detection point calculated based on a first detection value acquired from the detecting portion when the second detection value is a value between the first and second thresholds, the first detection value being more than the second threshold and being acquired before the second detection value.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOKAI RIKA DENKI SEISAKUSHOInventor: Yasuhiro Fujioka
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Patent number: 9757651Abstract: A method of processing a user input by an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving a signal from an auxiliary electronic device, providing application information related to the auxiliary electronic device based on the signal, and identifying a program configured to receive a control signal transmitted from the auxiliary electronic device based on the application information.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jaeyoung Song, Jinho Jang, Ilgeun Bok, Sungjun Kim, Hyukgoo Lee, Wooseong Choi
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Patent number: 9761158Abstract: An image processing apparatus comprises a specification unit configured to, from a multi-screen display corresponding to multi-screen displays performed by a plurality of projection apparatuses, specify an overlapping region in which first and second projection regions for first and second projection apparatuses overlap; a determination unit configured to, based on the positions of the overlapping regions in the first and second projection regions, determine luminance correction coefficients corresponding to the overlapping region such that the luminance correction coefficient at a coordinate corresponding to a first vertex in the overlapping region and a luminance correction coefficient at a coordinate corresponding to a second vertex located diagonally opposite to the first vertex in the overlapping region are different; and a correction unit configured to correct luminance of image data for the multi-screen display, based on the determined correction coefficients.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2014Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akihiro Ouchi
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Patent number: 9753488Abstract: A body (1, 1?, 1?) produced by an in-mold process has a first film (2, 2?, 2?) with at least one electrical or electronic functional layer (25). In a functional area (20a, 20a?, 20a?) of this functional layer, at least one electrical or electronic component is provided, and at least one electrical connection for this is provided in a contact area (20b, 20b?, 20b?). The first film is partially back-injection molded with a plastic main material (3, 3?, 3?) such that the contact area (20b, 20b?, 20b?) is at least partially free from this plastic main material (3). Suitable formation of the first film (2, 2?, 2?) guarantees that a tab (F) separated from the plastic main material (3, 3?, 3?) is provided which adjoins a back-injection molded part of the first film in an area of surface (20c, 20c?, 20c?) of the body which is at a distance from an edge (31, 31?) of the body delimiting the surface (30) with the first film.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignees: LEONHARD KURZ STIFTUNG & CO, KG, POLYIC GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Martin Hahn, Wolfgang Clemens, Rainer Sigritz, Ulrich Schindler, Gerald Golling
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Patent number: 9754537Abstract: An organic light emitting display device includes a scan driver progressively supplying a scan signal to scan lines, a data driver supplying data signals to output lines of the data driver during a period in which the scan signal is supplied, and demultiplexers respectively coupled to the output lines of the data driver, and supplying the data signals to data lines, each demultiplexer including first switches, each first switch being coupled between an output line of the data driver and a data line among a first set of data lines, and a second switch coupled between a first initialization power source and a data line among a second set of data lines, wherein the first set of data lines includes the second set of data lines and at least one other data line.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2013Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventors: Dong-Eup Lee, Hyoung-Sik Moon
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Patent number: 9753580Abstract: A projector includes a position detection unit and a calibration control unit. The calibration control unit executes first calibration relevant to a manipulation position of an indicator performing a manipulation on a screen, and second calibration relevant to a manipulation position of an indicator performing a manipulation on the screen. Then, the calibration control unit provides a user interface allowing indication of whether or not the second calibration is to be executed after the first calibration is executed.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventor: Shinji Kubota
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Patent number: 9747018Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an object are provided. Motions of fingers present in a 3-dimensional (3D) sensing area are detected, and a pointer or an object being displayed is controlled corresponding to the detected motions. Therefore, input of a control signal may be achieved without a direct touch on a display device such as a terminal, thereby preventing leaving marks on a screen of the display. In addition, since the motions of fingers are detected within the 3D sensing area, not on a 2-dimensional (2D) plane, more types of input motions may be used.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2011Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Ju Han, Joon Ah Park, Hyung Kew Lee
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Patent number: 9747838Abstract: A pixel may include an organic light emitting diode (OLED) with a cathode electrode coupled to a second power source, a first transistor with a first electrode coupled to a data line, with a second electrode coupled to a first node, the first transistor being turned on when a scan signal is supplied to a scan line, a first capacitor coupled between the first node and a third power source to charge a first capacitor voltage corresponding to a data signal supplied from the data line, and a pixel circuit charged by the first capacitor voltage to supply current corresponding to a charged first power source voltage from a first power source to the second power source via the OLED.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.Inventor: Chul-Kyu Kang
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Patent number: 9747856Abstract: A display device includes a plurality of gate lines extended in a first direction, a plurality of common electrodes extended in the first direction, a gate scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the gate lines, and a common scanning circuit that scans the plurality of the common electrodes. The common scanning circuit includes a shift register unit, an interconnection connecting unit, and a switch unit. The gate scanning circuit and the common scanning circuit are configured of single channel thin film transistors. The gate scanning circuit is disposed between the shift register unit and the interconnection connecting unit, and the interconnection connecting unit is disposed between the gate scanning circuit and the switch unit in a planar view.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Japan Display Inc.Inventors: Takayuki Suzuki, Hiroyuki Abe